Speaker Dennis Hastert agrees that the ammendment is more a symbolic show of bigotry than a viable attempt to enshrine it in the Constitution: ...while a spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert doubted such an amendment would receive the two-thirds majority necessary to pass Congress, he said the issue would still serve to define the choice available for voters come November. "Sometimes you win for losing," said Hastert spokesman John Feehery, noting the issue would draw a clear line between Bush and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kerry and Edwards, unsurprisingly, are responding with the rhetoric of states' rights and national unity. Edwards best moment is this: Edwards said Bush's announcement shows "The president is not in touch with what's going on in people's lives. If he really wants to help married couples, what he should be doing is helping them with their economic problems, their health-care problems," the North Carolina senator told reporters during a campaign stop in Georgia.